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Ed Paschke, Menagerie, 1969. Estimate $50,000-70,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will hold its spring Modern Design + Post-War & Contemporary Art sale with 360 lots by notable figures from the mid-20th century to the present. Among the items up for bid will be paintings, prints, sculptures, furniture, lighting, metalwork, pottery, and glassware. In addition to works by artists and designers from Chicago and the Midwest, the sale features a range of impressive examples from individuals across the globe. Preview details and bidding instructions follow the auction highlights below. Chicago artist Ed Paschkes oil on canvas, Menagerie, 1969 (estimate $50,000-70,000), deftly appropriates pop culture, cinema, and early photography. In abstract art, the auction has an acrylic painting by Paul Jenkins, entitled Phenomena Sighting the Bridge, 1987 ($25,000-35,000), and compositions by Milton Resnick, Robert Natkin, and Frank Stella (highest $8,000-12,000). Pop artis ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Discovery Sale | Antiquities & Ethnographica sale on May 12, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! Egyptian Wood & Painted Plaster Sarcophagus Mask. Estimate $3,500 - $5,000.
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| Eli Wilner & Company restores the period frame on W.F.K. Travers' portrait of Abraham Lincoln | | Five museums shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 | | A violin from Hollywood's golden age aims at an auction record | 
Abraham Lincoln, painted by W.F.K. Travers in 1864 or 1865, at the Hartley Dodge Memorial. Period frame restored by Eli Wilner & Company. Photo by Joseph Painter.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company was honored to be chosen by the Hartley Dodge Foundation (HDF) in Madison, New Jersey to restore the period frame on their extraordinary standing portrait of Abraham Lincoln, painted by W.F.K. Travers in 1864 or 1865, approximately 9 x 6 feet. The intriguing backstory of the artist and this portrait was recently featured in a Washington Post article by the renowned Lincoln scholar, Ted Widmer, author of Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days in Washington. The Travers Lincoln portrait was first notably on public view in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Several decades later, after various changes in ownership, it was acquired by ... More | | 
The Story Museum, Oxford, Museum of the Year finalist 2022, © Emli Bendixen/ Art Fund.
LONDON.- Art Fund, the national charity for art, today announced the five museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022, the worlds largest museum prize. The shortlisted museums are: Derby Museums, Museum of Making (Derby) Horniman Museum and Gardens (London) Peoples History Museum (Manchester) The Story Museum (Oxford) Tŷ Pawb (Wrexham) Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for the Museum of the Year prize. The 2022 edition champions organisations whose achievements tell the story of museums creativity and resilience, and particularly focuses on those engaging the next generation of audiences in innovative ways. The winning museum will be announced at a ceremony at the D ... More | | 
Jason Price, director of Tarisio auction company, holds the da Vinci" Stradivarius violin in Berlin, Germany, April 30, 2022. Andrew White/The New York Times.
by James B. Stewart
NEW YORK, NY.- Rare violins once owned by famed virtuosos like Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz and Yehudi Menuhin have sold privately in recent years for up to $20 million. The instruments they played typically bear their names, like the Earl of Plymouth Stradivarius, which to burnish its reputation, mystique and market value is now also referred to as the ex-Kreisler. Can Toscha Seidel work the same marketing magic even though his fame came mostly from Hollywood rather than the concert hall? Musicians and collectors will know soon. After a global tour currently underway, the violin Seidel owned and played, ... More |
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| Smithsonian American Art Museum acquires more than 200 artworks for its craft collection | | When a Warhol for $225 has more heft than one for $195 million | | Madonna and Beeple collaborate on NFT project | 
Bisa Butler, Dont Tread On Me, God Damn, Lets Go! The Harlem Hellfighters, 2021 (detail), pieced, appliquéd, and quilted cottons, silk, wool, and velvet, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of David Bonderman. Photo by Lee Stalsworth.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A recent campaign by the Smithsonian American Art Museums Renwick Gallery to acquire artworks by leading craft artists has brought more than 200 objects into its permanent collection. The Renwick Gallery 50th Anniversary Acquisition Campaign, begun in 2020, focused on artworks made by a broadly representative and diverse group of American artists and significantly increases the number of Black, Latinx, Asian American, LGBTQ+, Indigenous and women artists represented in the nations collection. These newly acquired artworks are part of an effort to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the museums Renwick Gallery as the nations premier museum for the enjoyment and study of American craft. The artworks selected through this acquisitions campaign deepen the history of the studio craft movement while also introducing contemporary artworks that push the boundaries of what is considered to be handmade in the 21st ce ... More | | 
A 1964 Andy Warhol silkscreen, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, is auctioned at Christies on Monday in New York on Monday, May 9, 2022. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Blake Gopnik
NEW YORK, NY.- Sometime late in the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol began to silk-screen the face of Marilyn Monroe onto canvas, on backgrounds painted green, blue, red, orange, black sometimes even gold. Those repeating Marilyns, which sold for all of $225, were some of the most radically novel and influential works of the 20th century; they filled much of Warhols first New York show of pop art. The silk-screened Marilyn that sold Monday night at Christies auction house in Manhattan, for the almost incomprehensible sum of $195 million, was not one of those groundbreaking canvases. That 1964 Christies painting, the Shot Sage Blue Marilyn despite the title, no bullet ever pierced it; the title comes from an early scholars error is what Id have to call a retread of those earlier works, ordered up from the artist a full two years later by art entrepreneur Ben Birillo, for resale to pop collector Leon Kraushar. (In ... More | | 
Madonna and Beeple, Mother of Technology, still from NFT video artwork, 2022, courtesy of the artists.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Has Madonna embraced the blockchain?
The pop superstars interest in NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, caught some fans off guard in March, when she paid 180 ether, a digital currency worth $560,000 at the time, for an NFT of a tattooed ape from the Bored Ape Yacht Club, a collection of digital art. On Monday, the singer released her own NFT series, titled Mother of Creation three digitally rendered videos that recast her as a nude woman giving birth to flora, fauna and technology. The artworks are the result of a yearlong collaboration with Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple. This is such an absolute, insane honor, said Winkelmann, who is known for selling an NFT in 2021 for $69 million at Christies. I dont do many collaborations. This is probably the only one I will do for a very long time. From Wednesday through Friday, Madonna and Beeples NFTs will be auctioned for charity through online marketplace ... More |
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| At 85, the jazz bassist Ron Carter still seeks 'a better order of notes' | | Exhibition of new and recent works by Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda on view at David Zwirner | | Leader of Pussy Riot band escapes Russia, with help from friends | 
Ron Carter, the acclaimed jazz bassist, in Riverside Park in New York, May 1, 2022. Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent morning on the Upper West Side, bassist and bandleader Ron Carter sat on the far end of a plush, rust-colored sofa in his spacious 10th-floor apartment, an oak-hued space with ornate sculptures and panoramic views of the bustling neighborhood blocks below. In the background wafted a gentle melody from Antônio Carlos Jobim, a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and a former collaborator. The place exuded a grandeur that describes the man, too. Its no surprise that Carter Mr. Carter, Maestro, a jazz legend lives here. With more than 60 albums as bandleader and countless others as a sideman, and more than 2,220 recording sessions to his credit, Carter has long let his music do the talking. During our conversation, he seemed guarded, resting his head in a balled-up right fist and looking away when answering ... More | | 
Lucas Arruda, Untitled (from the Deserto-Modelo series), 2021 (detail) © Lucas Arruda. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
PARIS.- David Zwirner is presenting Assum Preto, an exhibition of new and recent works by Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda, on view at the gallerys Paris location. This marks the artists third solo presentation with the gallery. Lucas Arrudas painting draws to itself the qualities and possibilities of the best painting: the long attention, the demanding and sensitive production, the ability to make the relationship between what and how flow harmoniously. He does this in an equally powerful manner, because, while it alludes to paintings past, to its grandeur (lost?), his painting also accompanies us in the present. Wouldnt we be there, in the enjoyment of his work, separated from the tension of the present? I think it would be the opposite: by turning on this visionary light, he also makes us feel and see the obscurity and dissension of our times. This paradoxical ... More | | 
An undated photo shows Maria Alyokhina, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot who escaped from Russia to Lithuania, left, and her girlfriend Lucy Shtein trying on their food courier disguises in Moscow. Via The New York Times.
by Valerie Hopkins and Misha Friedman
VILNIUS.- Maria Alyokhina first came to the attention of Russian authorities and the world when her punk band and performance art group Pussy Riot staged a protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscows Christ the Savior Cathedral. For that act of rebellion in 2012, she was sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism. She remained determined to fight Putins system of repression, even after being jailed six more times since the summer, each stint for 15 days, always on trumped-up charges aimed at stifling her political activism. But in April, as Putin cracked down harder to snuff out any criticism of his war in Ukraine, authorities announced that her effective ... More |
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| Record breaking Procter discovery leads Modern Made sale | | Erica Wall named Director of the Lunder Institute for American Art at the Colby College Museum of Art | | Brodie Neill presents new sustainable furniture at Sotheby's London | 
Ernest Procter, The Long Range Bombardment of Dunkirk, 1918 (detail).
LONDON.- Auction records tumbled at Lyon & Turnbulls Modern Made auction held in London and live online on April 29. Leading the sale was Ernest Procters previously long-lost Great War painting The Long Range Bombardment of Dunkirk that attracted huge interest before selling at £92,500, a new auction record price for the Newlyn artist. The discovery of this important work in a private collection in Scotland, and the subsequent research into it by Lyon & Turnbull specialists, caused a sensation in both the academic and the collecting communities in the run up to the sale. Born in Tynemouth into a Quaker family, Procter declared himself a conscientious objector on the outbreak of World War One. In 1916 he joined The Friends' Ambulance Unit established by the Quakers as a means for civilians to contribute to the war effort in a non-violent way. Although probably painted in the artists enclave of Newlyn foll ... More | | 
Wall comes to Waterville from North Adams, Mass., where she serves as executive director of MCLA Arts and Culture at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Art.
WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art announced today that Erica Wall will become the new director of the Lunder Institute for American Art. A creative, collaborative, and dynamic educator, curator and arts leader, Wall brings extensive community-building experience to Colby, where she will advance the mission of the Lunder Institute as a leading incubator and convener of scholarship and artistic practice in ways that evolve how American art is understood and how it is studied, taught, interpreted, and made. Wall comes to Waterville from North Adams, Mass., where she serves as executive director of MCLA Arts and Culture at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Art. Prior experience included founding a gallery that gave emerging artists the opportunity to exhibit their ... More | | 
Brodie Neill, Gyro Second Wave. Photo: Angela Moore.
LONDON.- London-based Australian designer Brodie Neill is presenting a new collection of work for Sothebys this May. Part of Sothebys ongoing Design series, the selling exhibition Material Consciousness is on show at the auction houses New Bond Street location and online via www.sothebys.com from 6-19 May 2022. Featuring nine new sustainable furniture pieces, the collection showcases Neills desire to reshape the worlds most precious resources into a range of collectable design pieces. Presented as a triptych, the collection focuses on three specific fields of material research; ocean plastic, reclaimed timbers, and circular metals. Each design applies Neills signature rigour and resolve to the complex issues of waste and the world's finite resources. Through technical and creative innovation as well as painstaking preparation, Material Consciousness presents a deep understanding of process ... More |
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 Sotheby's auction to support families impacted by the crisis in Ukraine LONDON.- Later this month Sothebys online auction Contemporary Discoveries is set to raise funds for vital work undertaken by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in response to the crisis in Ukraine. The IRC's mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Open for bidding from 13-19 May, 28 lots will be offered as part of Contemporary Discoveries, with proceeds raised donated to the IRC, to help support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine. The works will be on public view in Sothebys New Bond Street galleries for the duration of the auction. The selection of work highlights 15 contemporary Ukrainian artists, including those who have donated their work directly, among them Oksana Mas, Nazar Bilyk, and Maria Bilyan. Thirteen ... More  Enchanting exhibit featuring talented young artists' creations sparkles in the Garment District NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance is providing young artists with a platform to shine as part of its latest public art exhibit, Sparkling Garden. Featuring 30 mixed-media works, the installation is a collaborative effort by children and staff at the Children's Museum of the East End (CMEE), through workshops held by artist Chelsea Hrynick Browne. Located inside the Kaufman Arcade building on 139 W 35th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through May 27. Sparking Garden is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations throughout the year and over 17 years has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. Were so proud to present this whimsical exhibit as part of our series of public art installations, said Barbara A. Blair, president ... More  There were Tony snubs and surprises, as alwaysNEW YORK, NY.- Tony nominations morning is always filled with joy for lots of performers, theater artists and producers who find themselves in contention for Broadways biggest recognition. But there are also always some who are overlooked, and others who are just gobsmacked. Here are some of the snubs, surprises and observations about Mondays list: The nominators spread out their admiration quite widely: Of the 34 eligible shows, 29 got at least one nod, including the critically scorned Diana. But five new plays were completely overlooked. Most surprising: Pass Over, a well-reviewed play and bracing drama by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, and also the first play to open after the pandemic lockdown. Also scoring no nominations: Birthday Candles, by Noah Haidle; Chicken & Biscuits, by ... More  Australian Centre for Contemporary Art announces Jessica Clark as third Yalingwa CuratorMELBOURNE.- This week the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art welcomed Jessica Clark to the role of Yalingwa Curator. An independent curator and PhD candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts, Jessica will be responsible for conceiving and realising the 2023 Yalingwa exhibition at ACCA, which is the third in a series of First Nations exhibitions arranged as part of the Yalingwa visual arts initiative. ACCA Artistic Director/CEO Max Delany said Jessicas achievements as an emerging curator and academic, and her interests in art history, education and exploring inter-cultural relationships between people, place and materials will bring a rich perspective to the role. Conversation is central to Jessicas curatorial practice, who has worked extensively engaging First Peoples artistic, cultural practices and community practices. ... More  Almine Rech now represents Mehdi GhadyanlooLONDON.- Almine Rech announced the representation of Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo in France, Belgium and Shanghai, following his first solo exhibition at Almine Rech Brussels in the spring of 2021. Almine Rech will feature a solo exhibition of Mehdi Ghadyanloo in the London space in 2023. Born in Karaj, Iran in 1981, he graduated with a B.A. from Tehran Universitys College of Fine Arts in 2005, and later earned an M.A. in film studies from Tehrans Teachers College. Mehdi Ghadyanloo began his career as a muralist in Tehran in the early 2000s, when, following a call for proposals by the city, he produced almost one thousand gigantic wall paintings, including dreamlike landscapes and science-fiction scenes. His work combines minimalist themes and a surrealist aesthetic in his paintings, using acrylic, oil, or watercolor. ... More  Neue Auctions announces results of Fine Interiors, Art & Antiques auctionBEACHWOOD, OH.- A dazzling Baignoire de Cartier 18kt yellow gold and diamond ladies watch, made around 2010, slipped onto a new wrist for $9,225, and a beautiful pair of Chinese turquoise glaze terracotta foo dogs on stands brought $5,842 in an online-only Fine Interiors, Art & Antiques auction held April 30th by Neue Auctions, based in Beachwood. The auction featured a wild and wonderful collection of objects assembled from estates and collections across Ohio, Naples, Florida and other locations 381 lots in all. Up for bid was beautiful, high-quality furniture, as well as lighting, glass, estate carpets and more. Already Neue Auctions is gearing up for its next big event: a May Modern auction slated for Saturday, May 28. With a pre-sale estimate of $6,000-$8,000, the Baignoire de Cartier ladies watch was the sales expected ... More  Omega watch once given to Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins takes off at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- An out-of-this-world Omega watch that was made for and given to one of the astronauts aboard the first manned mission to the moon will touch down in a new collection when it is sold June 1 in Heritage Auctions Fine Watches & Timepieces Signature® Auction. The Omega, Very Rare And Important Gold Speedmaster Professional Wristwatch, No. 19, Presented To Astronaut Michael Collins, circa 1969 (current bid: $41,000) is an extraordinary timepiece given to Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module around the moon in 1969 while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first crewed landing on the lunar surface. This is an incredibly rare watch, Heritage Auctions Watches & Fine Timepieces Director Jim Wolf said. There were only 28 of them made. The first two were offered to President (Richard) Nixon and Vice President ... More  Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation appoint Holly Harrison as Director SANTA FE, NM.- The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation announces the appointment of Holly Harrison as Director, the first executive leadership appointment in the history of the Foundation. In her role, Harrison oversees grantmaking in the arts and higher education, as well as collection, museum lending, and exhibition programs. In anticipation of the Foundations tenyear anniversary, Harrison will establish new education initiatives in the broader Southwest region, including Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas with the goal of expanding college and career opportunities and access for young people in rural areas. Since its inception in 2014, the Thoma Foundation has: Lent more than 1,000 works of art to over 135 exhibitions across the globe Made over 100 grants totaling over $8 million to nonprofit organizations ... More  Marius Bercea's first solo exhibition in New York opens at François GhebalyNEW YORK, NY.- François Ghebaly is presenting Blue Silk, Romanian artist Marius Berceas first solo exhibition in New York City. When asked about his attitudes toward the future, painter and portraitist Marius Bercea describes a faith in, among other things, the test of time. The paintings that comprise Berceas newest body of work, Blue Silk, were completed during the nearly two- years of global shutdown, an era that for many was defined by the disruption if not total estrangement of familiar relationships with time. Berceas paintings find this most recent and unresolved stage in global life negotiated alongside the patchwork of generational histories that regularly undergird his social portraiture. His artistic practice has long explored the wake of the Cold War, in particular the complex, radically uncertain cultural realities ... More  Susan Jacks, who sang 'Which Way You Goin' Billy?,' dies at 73NEW YORK, NY.- Susan Jacks, a Canadian vocalist known for her 1969 hit with the Poppy Family, Which Way You Goin Billy? one of the top-selling records Canada had produced to that point, died April 25 in Surrey, British Columbia. She was 73. Her brother Rick Pesklevits said in a Facebook post on behalf of the family that the cause was kidney disease. He said she died at a hospital and had been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, which would have been her second. As a teenager, Jacks was a regular on the Canadian show Music Hop when, in 1966, she needed an accompanist for a show at an Elks Club and turned to Terry Jacks, who had played guitar on the show. Soon they married, formed the Poppy Family and cut Which Way You Goin Billy? Terry Jacks, who wrote the song, said it was inspired by the spectacle ... More  LAMINAproject will present compelling new work by Amie Esslinger, Michal Gavish, and Jody Rasch at VOLTA New York NEW YORK, NY.- Some of the most innovative artists working today are fusing art and science and taking inspiration from science. LAMINAproject−a gallery/platform devoted to art/science−showcases artwork by emerging and established artists that integrates ideas, images and metaphors of science to convey fundamental truths about the world and explore different characteristics of art-science relationships. LAMINAprojects artists not only show the beauty of science, but also communicate how these images relate to and help us see beyond our daily existence. As expressions of both the patterns of the natural world and the metaphors underlying modern science, their art allows us to see beauty ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme was born May 11, 1824. Jean-Léon Gérôme (May 11, 1824 - January 10, 1904) was a French artist born in Vesoul, France. The leading Orientalist painter of his time, he was also highly regarded for his polychromed sculptures, evocations of life in ancient Rome, and depictions of events from French history. In this image: a museum technician at Hearst Castle admires âNapoleon before the Sphinxâ (or âOedipusâ), 60.3 x 101 cm, about 1886. Inv. no. 529-9-5092. Photo: Courtesy ©Hearst Castle®/California State Parks, photo by Vickie Garagliano. All rights reserved.
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